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Spring 2013 Vol.15, no.2

Devere Allen Lantern Slide Collection is online by Wendy E. Chmielewski

The Devere Allen Lantern Slide Collection is now part of the online Triptych collection. Devere Allen was a writer, editor, internationalist, and socialist who came of age in the 1920s. Connected with the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the War Resisters League, Allen edited magazines with progressive and international themes, The World Tomorrow, The Nation (1932), and established the international news gathering agency, The Worldover Press. Allen also assisted the ﬁrst curator of the Peace Collection in acquiring some of the records of the earliest peace societies in the U.S. In 1961, his widow, Marie Allen, donated his very large collection of papers to the Peace Collection. But it was only in 2012 that Devere Allen’s collection of glass lantern slides was discovered in the attic of a family member and donated to Swarthmore. This collection consists of 263 glass slides of images that Allen used to illustrate his many lectures and talks promoting peace and internationalism. Most of these slides date no later than the mid 1930s. They include portraits of leading public ﬁgures of that period, such as George Bernard Shaw, Jawaharlal Nehru, and George Lansbury; and peace activists such as Mohandas Gandhi, Fenner Brockway, and Romain Rolland. Many of the slides depict the architectural and cultural heritage in European cities or the beauties of the surrounding countryside. Allen collected images of contemporary events such as a parade of Soviet military might in Moscow’s Red Square, a peace demonstration in Berlin in the early 1930s, and a march of Nazi “Brown Shirts” a few years later. Anti-war cartoons make up another segment of the slide collection. The photographers of these images remain unknown, but the lantern slides themselves were hand colored and produced by the Edward van Altena Studios in New York. The collection can be viewed at: http:// triptych.brynmawr.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/SC_photo [search terms Allen Lantern]

No more war parade, Berlin, early 1930s

Vienna international parade participants carrying sign: “Proletarians of the world unite in sports.”

Version 2 of Tripod just released by Spencer Lamm

It includes many improvements and new features. Highlights include: Authentication by campus email Instead of your 14-digit library bar code, you can now use your campus email and password to access your library account, request and renew items, etc. You will need to use your bar code the ﬁrst time you log in, but after that you only need to use it for E-ZBorrow or if you prefer to work in Tripod Classic. More details, including step-by-step instructions, can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/bxxvo5c Best Bet In order to provide easier access to our most important resources, such as the New York Times, JSTOR, and Web of Science, we’ll be displaying them prominently in a new space on Tripod called Best Bet. Add to Favorites

You can mark favorites within Books & More to save for later use, add to lists, export, cite, print, and email. Research Guides Running a search in Tripod will now display results from related course, subject, and research guides. Digital Collections Channel Searches in Tripod will also display content from Bryn Mawr and Haverford Special Collections, Friends Historical Library, and the Peace Collection. Improved Relevance Ranking Books & More search results have been adjusted to provide better results. We hope these features and improvements enhance your library research experience.

Tasha Lewis ’12 created an installation of her cyanotype butterﬂies on the microﬁlm cabinets in McCabe Library and in other campus spaces in the fall.

The library book sale during Family Weekend, Oct. 26-28, attracted many book lovers looking for good buys. The Legacy of Rome was the ﬁrst book sold.

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@library.edu Editors: Pam Harris, Terry Heinrichs, Annette Newman Thank you to all who contributed to this issue. libnews@swarthmore.edu Swarthmore College Library, 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore PA 19081

Libraries engage in partnership with new Institute for Liberal Arts by Lucy Saxon

The Institute for Liberal Arts, established at Swarthmore last year, has a mandate from the College Strategic Plan to study and strengthen the liberal arts model of higher education even as our society meets overwhelming challenges. To quote the Strategic Plan,

The accelerating rate of the production of information, a more pervasive awareness of global connections, vast technological changes, new demographic trends, and daunting ﬁnancial pressures combine to produce a complex environment. (p. 28)

We believe that the liberal arts model of higher education will make the intellectual space for us to conceive solutions for the problems of the 21st century. These goals align well with the mission of the College Libraries to promote “critical inquiry, scholarly discovery, and creativity.” The Libraries and the Institute for Liberal Arts are natural partners in supporting the liberal arts inquiry in the classroom and beyond. Working with Stacey Kutish of the Institute for Liberal Arts, the Libraries are helping to support departmental and interdisciplinary lectures and academic events. Returning to the root of the word “lecture,” we are encouraging the community to read books written by the speakers visiting

Swarthmore this year (see below for details). Swarthmore already attracts thinkers and activists from near and far to enrich scholarly life here and to broaden thinking that could otherwise be hemmed in by disciplinary boundaries. McCabe Library is currently hosting an exhibit that exempliﬁes the ideals of the Institute for Liberal Arts. The artist J. Henry Fair has photographed sites in the United States where industrial extraction has scarred our landscapes. His art was appreciated by political scientist Carol Nackenoff and brought to the library by visual resources librarian Susan Dreher. Fair’s work combines an understanding of environmental science with an artistic vision of the sociopolitical problems of extraction. Many speakers are traveling to campus this spring, including poets Rowan Ricardo Phillips ‘96 and Eli Clare, critic Terry Eagleton, classical historian Peter Temin ’59, queer and trans activists from INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, writers Dorothy Allison and Jonathan Franzen ’81, explorer of creativity Lewis Hyde, and the theorist of higher education Louis Menand. Their books are available through the college libraries. The Libraries look forward to supporting these events and future activities of The Institute for Liberal Arts.

On campus this semester: Books and authors The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World Lewis Hyde

The Revolution will not be Funded Incite! Women of Color against Violence Visiting representatives, March 28-31

Lecture: Jan. 31, 7:30 pm, Scheuer Room

The Ground

The Marketplace of Ideas

Rowan Ricardo Phillips ‘96

Louis Menand*

Reading: April 4, 7:30 pm, Scheuer Room

Lecture: Feb. 1, 4:30 pm, Science Center 101

Why Marx was Right

Freedom

Terry Eagleton

Jonathan Franzen ‘81 Reading: Feb. 14, 7:30 pm, LPAC Cinema

The Day After Tomorrow: Images of Our Earth in Crisis J. Henry Fair

Lecture: April 5, time TBA, LPAC

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion Jonathan Haidt* Lecture: April 9, 7:30 pm, Science Center 101

Lecture: Feb. 18, 8 pm, Science Center 101

The Marrow’s Telling: Words in Motion Eli Clare Lecture: March 28, 7 pm, place TBA

Bastard Out of Carolina Dorothy Allison Lecture: March 29, 4:30 pm, LPAC Cinema * ILA-sponsored

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More electronic resources added to library collection by Amy McColl

Accessible Archives Swarthmore had a portion of these titles previously, but now all the tri-college libraries will have the full title list. Contains full-text primary resource materials in American history including newspapers, magazines, and genealogical records originally only offered on microﬁlm. Covers 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, and includes African American newspaper collections, Godey’s Lady’s Book, The Lily, the Pennsylvania Gazette, county histories, and perspectives on the Civil War.

such as online CV management, and salary databases. ClimateWire Produced by Environment & Energy Publishing, ClimateWire is a daily publication focusing on global climate policy, science, energy and market issues.

Burney Collection newspaper archive, 17th and 18th century Provides full text to the newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817), representing the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media. The 700 or so bound volumes of newspapers and news pamphlets were published mostly in London; however there are also some English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, and a few examples from the American colonies, Europe and India.

Financial Times Online The Financial Times was founded in 1888 as the friend of “The Honest Financier and the Respectable Broker.” Over 1.8 million readers in more than 140 countries rely on the Financial Times for timely and objective coverage of key events across the globe. Swarthmore now has full access to the latest edition online via the Financial Times’ site.

Chronicle of Higher Education Online http://chronicle.com/section/Home/5

Access has changed from login/password to IP access at Swarthmore. The Chronicle of Higher Education is the No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. Online, The Chronicle is published every weekday and is the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe. The Chronicle’s web site features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; an archive of previously published content; vibrant discussion forums; and career-building tools

Academic Tech Fair Feb. 19 The Library and ITS are sponsoring the Academic Tech Fair on Tuesday, February 19, 10 am to 2 pm, in the Scheuer Room. Librarians Kate Carter and Donna Fournier are on the organizing committee. More library staff will be involved that day. Lucy Saxon will be answering questions on ebooks or other library-related topics at the Ask-Us-Anything table. Melinda Kleppinger will be at the archives table, showing the dance video archive, the Halcyon, theses, and the Phoenix. Sarah Elichko will manage the GIS table, and Pam Harris will be welcoming people and answering their questions. 4

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EnergyWire Also produced by Environment & Energy Publishing, EnergyWire is a daily publication covering the politics and business of unconventional energy.

Short Story Index Previously produced in print, this index is available online to tri-college patrons. This database is an essential resource for readers seeking short stories by author or genre, or for those researching a body of work of a literary figure. Content will include: detailed indexing of more than 117,000 stories from more than 4,200 collections and anthologies; full text for nearly 5,000 stories; and coverage dating as far back as 1984. Statistical Abstract of the United States (2013 forward via Proquest) The ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States. The Proquest online edition has significant enhancements over the Census Bureau’s online version: line-item access to tables; updated monthly instead of annually; table-specific capabilities for narrowing results by source, data date, subject, type of data breakdown.

Alums can get JSTOR articles Alumni are now able to access journal articles on JSTOR through the library’s subscription, using the proxy server at https://proxy.swarthmore.edu/login. JSTOR is a not-for-proﬁt service that includes full-text content of more than 1,400 academic journals, as well as thousands of primary sources.

Students could select one of these postcards to send a note home during exams. The cards were created by Susan Dreher and Terry Heinrichs and mailed by the library.

Book collecting contest offers cash prizes to three students February 4 is the deadline for applications to the A. Edward Newton Student Book Collection Competition, the longestrunning collegiate book collecting competition in the nation. Started in the 1930s by a renowned Philadelphia book collector, A. Edward Newton, the competition awards cash prizes to the top three Swarthmore students who submit the best essays and annotated bibliographies of their book collections. The winners are also invited to give a talk about their collection in McCabe Library. Books must be owned and have been collected by the student. Entries must include an annotated bibliography of at least 25 books and a one-page essay describing how, when, where, and why the books were acquired. Each collection will be judged by the extent to which it represents a well-deﬁned concept giving it unity and continuity; for example, a theme, an author, a subject, a publisher, a genre, etc. The top three collectors will receive cash prizes of $600, $300, and $200. The top prize winner is eligible to participate in the Antiquarian Booksellers of American national competition. For more information or to submit an entry, please contact Lucy Saxon at lsaxon1.

Five students to participate in library intern program by Meg Spencer

This semester five students have been selected for the ninth Library Intern Program: Christina Aruffo ’14, Stephanie Braziel ’15, Maria Mejia ’15, Maureen Murray ’14, and Alison Ryland ’14. Each week, the interns will explore a different aspect of librarianship in classes taught by various members of the library staff and participate in group and individual projects. Last year’s projects included a campus book crafts workshop, and a very funny, and slightly profane, video created by interns MC Mazzocchi ’12 and Tayarisha Poe ’12. A field trip has been planned for a behind-the-scenes tour of Longwood Gardens in the spring, hosted by a visual resources specialist who works in Pierre du Pont’s Archives. Other possible field trips include a visit to LIBRA, the highdensity storage facility in New Jersey, and the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia. @library. edu Spring 2013

staff notes Jessica Brangiel joined the library staff in early January as the electronic resources management specialist. She is responsible for overseeing the library’s collection of about 15,000 journals and 500,000 ebooks, managing the entire life cycle (purchasing, access, assessment, and archiving) of online materials. Her previous positions included working as global content manager at QlikTech, Inc., serials and electronic resources librarian at Thomas Jefferson University, and electronic acquisitions librarian at the University of Pennsylvania Library.

Catherine Wimberley is the new weekend supervisor in access and lending at McCabe Library, working Saturday and Sunday 10 am to 6 pm. Catherine received a master’s in library and information science from Drexel University and a bachelor’s from Bryn Mawr College. While at Drexel, she did a practicum in McCabe at the Research and Information Desk.

Spencer Lamm, Swarthmore digital initiatives librarian and tri-college library technology coordinator, gave a presentation at the fall member meeting of the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc. (PALCI) in Pittsburgh on December 5. His presentation focused on why and how the libraries choose, in Tripod, to modify the VuFind Open Source catalog into a Discovery layer including content from ExLibris’ Primo Central article aggregator, CONTENTdm, and LibGuides. He discussed how the tri-college libraries do distributed technology decision-making, the major features of the system, and the reasons for developing a channeled solution instead of purchasing an interﬁled discovery layer (all content including articles, newspapers, monographs, special collections in one set of results) like Summon, Primo, or Ebsco Discovery Service.

photo by Annette Newman

Ken Watts, tri-college library van driver, pulls away from McCabe Library in the new trico van, a Ford Transit Connect. This van is much more fuel efﬁcient than the previous one.

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Amy McColl, assistant director for collections, attended the Charleston Library Conference in early November. The conference focused on library acquisitions, collection development, and eresources. The main topics of conversation were ebooks in libraries, patron-driven acquisition programs, digital scholarship, and open access initiatives. Barbara Weir, associate librarian for technical services and digital initiatives, attended the Library Assessment Conference in Charlottesville, Virginia, in late October. By bringing together interested practitioners and researchers, the conference aimed to build and further a vibrant library assessment community.

book arts by Anne Garrison / photos by Annette Newman

Kinnikinnick Brand Kickapoo Joy-Juice Turkey Press, 2004 This is a delightfully whimsical book featuring the poetry of Jonathan Williams, an American poet, publisher, essayist, and photographer, known for his association with the experimental Black Mountain College. Sandra Reese, of Turkey Press, designed, letterpressed, and bound this gem, which also features hand-inked stencils and a little known typeface, Narrow Bembo.

An Alliterative Abecedarium of Anthropomorphic Animals Michael Kuch, Double Elephant Press, 2010 Michael Kuch, who worked for many years with Leonard Baskin, has created an extraordinarily clever alphabet book with his Alliterative Abecedarium. This accordion book, which features a unique magnetic binding, features drawings of disenchanted dodos debating divorce, inexcusably insolent iguanas, an oracle octopus opining on and on, and a tormented tarantula terriﬁed of the truth.

Alphabet of Endangered Mammals: A Collection of Etchings depicting animals considered Extinct in the Wild 2050 D.R. Wakefield, The Chevington Press, 2010 A companion piece to An Alphabet of Extinct Mammals, this work is a fanciful yet ironic ode to 26 nearly extinct mammals featuring Wakefield’s gorgeously colored etchings. The images pop off the page, both for their detail and color. And the accompanying text highlights Wakefield’s typical dry wit. He says of the Koala Bear for example: “Bush fires have always been part of the cycle of life in Australia, and their cyclical increase can reasonably be accounted for by global warming. However, the rise in bush fires, caused by arson cannot be defended quite so rationally, and the disastrous effect on the Koala Bears has left them being cuddled to death in mild captivity.” @library. edu Spring 2013

at the library • at the library • at the library • at the library Extraction and the American Dream January 9 - February 20 McCabe Library Lobby Artist’s lectures: Friday, January 25,12:30 pm, McCabe Lobby Monday, February 18, 8 pm, Science Center 101

New York-based photographer J Henry Fair seeks to create art that compels the viewer to consider the impact a consumption-based economy has on our life support systems. He researches, travels to, and photographs toxic sites in such a way as to create compelling images that give pause to the audience. His well-known Industrial Scars series researches our world’s most egregious environmental disasters and creates images that are simultaneously stunning and horrifying. Fair’s images have been compared to abstract paintings by Georgia O’Keefe and Jackson Pollock. His ﬁrst book, The Day After Tomorrow: Images of Our Earth in Crisis was released in February 2011, published by powerHouse Books in cooperation with Random House.

Occuprint: Occupy Wall Street Artist’s Prints March 1 - mid-April McCabe Library Lobby In March, McCabe will be Occupied by Occuprint! Occuprint is an exhibit featuring poster art of the global Occupy movement. With urgency and relevance, these bold posters showcase the variety of political, social, and economic concerns of the Occupy protestors, with a compelling visual punch. Join us for a talk by one of the Occuprint editorial committee members (date and time TBA).

Logan Grider’s oil painting class Mid-April - mid-June McCabe Library Lobby The work to be exhibited will consist of one assignment from the studio art course “Oil Painting.” Students will receive these instructions ahead of the project: “Make an instrument. Make a sound with your instrument. Make a painting of the instrument with the color, light, composition, and paint application chosen to reﬂect the sound of your instrument. The instrument can be made of any material. There are no limitations on scale of either the instrument or painting.” Day and Night, Santana

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